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"We're in the devil of a hole!" he muttered, his mouth full of biscuit. Then he swore horribly, for the match had burned his fingers. Maclean stood up. "Any of you men happen to have a bit of candle in your pockets?" he demanded. Silence for a minute, then a Norwegian fireman spoke up. "Bout dree inches," he said.
Thirteen shillin's vor two or dree sausingers, a few slices o' bread an' butter, an' a bottle o' pop not vor Roger, if he knows it" Up kums a chap an' ses, "Be you gwain to pay vor wat you hev hed?" "To be sure I be.
Ane Begger is wae, another by the gate gae. A wight man never wanted a weapon. A half-penny Cat may look to the King. As fair greits the bairn that is dung after noon, as he that is dung before noon. An oleit Mother makes a fweir Daughter. A borrowed len should come laughing ahme. As long runs the Fox as he hath feet. A proud heart in a poor breast, has meikle dolour to dree.
"I can assure you," it said, "that it was bought in Calcutta fifty years ago, and cost two hundred rupees." "Vell, my good sir, it doesn't madder nodings to me vat it cost. I dell you dot ve don't advance nodings on dose dings. Ve cannot fill up dis blace mit such rubbish." "Will you buy it, then? Will you give me three pounds?" "Vy don't you say dree dousand!
He took her into the bar an' treated her to a bottle o' gin on the spot. At nine o'clock that evenin' she tuk hold of his stirrup-leather an' walked beside 'en, afoot, up to Castle Cannick. Next day, their banns were axed in church, an' in dree weeks she was My Ladyship. "'Twas a battle-royal that began then.
So this time he'd asked himself right out, what he really wanted and needed in life, and he'd been ready, honestly ready, to take any answer he got, and dree his weird accordingly, as the best thing for everybody concerned, as the only honest thing, as the only thing that would put any bed-rock under him, as what Marise would want him to do.
"And your mother! would any but a child have taken that soft-tongued wanton to her bosom, and not have seen through acting so transparent? Would any but the veriest child that never ought to have been let out into the world by itself have thought to dree her weird in such folly? Children! poor babies they were, both of them."
And sore's my sorrow parted long from you, * And short's my arm to reach the prize I see; And mourning grief for what my patience marred * To blamer's eye unveiled my secresy; And waxed strait that whilome was so wide * Patience nor force remains nor power to dree. Would Heaven I knew if God will ever deign to join * Our lives, and from our cark and care and grief set free!"
And there did rise now a sound from all that Country that had no order in it; and did be like to a low moaning that did fill all the air of the Land; and there to be also a constant sound, as of a little whistling dree wind that did be in all that Country of Quiet; and truly this to be more than any singing; for it to be the true weeping of multitudes, that did sorrow from the heart, with the grief of this thing that did be.
At this point the Weeding Woman became short of breath, and I managed to protest against taking so many plants of the hose-in-hose. "Take un and welcome, my dear, take un and welcome," replied Bessy's aunt. "I did say to Aunt to keep two or dree, but 'One be aal I want, her says, 'I'll have so many agin in a few years, dividin' of un in autumn, her says.
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